Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
pluck, pull, extract, excel
Kun:
ひき-
On:
チュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1437 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 抽象 【チュウショウ】 abstraction
  • 抽出 【チュウシュツ】 extraction, abstraction, selection (from a group), sampling

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chou1
Korean:
chu

Spanish

  • tirar
  • extraer
  • sacar
  • quitar

Portuguese

  • puxão
  • puxar
  • extrato
  • superar

French

  • extraire
  • tirer
  • exceller
1584 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1238 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1877 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1443 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1345 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
987 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1022 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1254 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
878 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
359 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
223 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
267 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1115 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11930 Morohashi
302 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2119 New Nelson (John Haig)
1106 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1187 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1182 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1376 2001 Kanji
3c5.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
5506.0 Four corner code
1-35-74 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
62bd Unicode hex code

15 strokes (also 14)
Radical:
walk 辵 (辶, ⻌, ⻍)
Parts:
elect, select, choose, prefer
Kun:
えら.ぶえ.るよ.る
On:
セン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
57 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 選 【セン】 selection, choice, choosing, picking, election
  • 選挙 【センキョ】 election
  • 抽選 【チュウセン】 lottery, raffle, drawing (of lots)
  • 公選 【コウセン】 public election, election by popular vote

Kun reading compounds

  • 選ぶ 【えらぶ】 to choose, to select
  • 選ぶところがない 【えらぶところがない】 being the same thing (as), being indistinguishable (from)
  • 選る 【よる】 to choose, to select
  • 選る 【よる】 to choose, to select

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xuan3
Korean:
seon

Spanish

  • elegir
  • seleccionar

Portuguese

  • eleger
  • selecionar
  • escolher
  • preferir

French

  • élection
  • sélection
  • choisir
  • préférer
449 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
556 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
527 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
105 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4744 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
522 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
967 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2419 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
800 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
814 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
264 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
721 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3931 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2026 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2734 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1822 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
39127P Morohashi
3169 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6114 New Nelson (John Haig)
1804 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1944 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
341 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
626 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3561 2001 Kanji
2q12.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-12 SKIP code
3-2-12 SKIP code
3730.8 Four corner code
1-33-10 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9078 Unicode hex code